Display of Encrypted Content Items

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein displaying the respective content item in place of one or more of the place holders comprises displaying an animation of the place holder turning into the content item.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the content items and the respective at least one place holder comprise text and displaying an animation comprises progressively changing symbols of the place holder text into symbols of the content item text over a period of time.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the at least one respective place holder comprises a random sequence of symbols replacing at least a portion of the content item.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the content items and the respective at least one place holder comprise an image and displaying an animation comprises displaying a sequence of images combining the place holder and content item images and fading from the place holder image to the content item image.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the respective at least one place holder comprises a noise pattern replacing the image of the at least one content item.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the image of the at least one content item is a preview of a larger image or a frame of a video.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user input comprises a scroll command to scroll the display sequence.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein causing display of a respective content item in place of one or more place holders comprises causing display of the respective content item in place of the one or more place holders for one or more most recent content items in the display sequence.

10. The method according to claim 1, the method comprising receiving a new content item, decrypting the new content item and causing display of the new content item as a new item in the display sequence.

11. The method according to claim 10, the method comprising, in response to receiving the new content item, displaying a place holder in place of the previously most recent content item, wherein the place holder has an appearance of a scrambled version of the previously most recent content item.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein each content item is a message item in a messaging application or service.

16. Tangible computer readable medium or media encoding computer code instructions which, when executed on a computing device, implement a method according to claim 1.